The Kestrel is manufactured by Huawei and looks in the same vein as the Huawei Ascend G6 with a not too dissimilar specification. It will form the basis of a new range of branded smartphones from EE.

The EE branded Kestrel will be available to buy at the end of April for £99.99p on Pay As You Go, locked to EE’s network, or will come free on the new £13.99p tariff announced by EE this week. It is the lowest priced 4G phone in the UK today.

The Kestrel will come pre-loaded with Android 4.3. (JellyBean) with a 4.5-inch qHD display and a 1.2GHz Qualcomm quad-core processor.

The low priced smartphone comes with 1GB of RAM and 8GB of on-board storage which is expandable via microSD. It comes with 4G connectivity and has a 5 megapixel camera.

EE’s newly released lower priced tariffs along with the decently specced Kestrel should appeal to those cost conscious buyers wanting a 4G smartphone on a budget.